It is with regret that we have to chronicle the passing away of another old and respected colonist, Mr. Judah Moss Solomon, Chairman of the Destitute Board. Mr. Solomon has been for

so many years identified with the public affairs of the colony, in political and municipal matters and more recently in an important official capacity that there are very few people in South Aus- tralia to whom his name will not be familiar, and very many who will deplore his loss. Twenty years ago there was no more popular man than he in the city, either in business or politics, and the same high and honourable principles which then characterized him, and the same energy and ability for administration which he then dis- played, attended his career to the last. Although on leave of absence, and confined to what he knew was his deathbed by one of the most terrible and painful diseases to which flesh is heir, he yet, up to within the last fortnight, in- sisted on being consulted on all important matters connected with the Destitute Department, and even dictated two or three reports of consequence to his officers. Mr. Solomon, who was of the Jewish faith, was born in London in 1818, and came out to Sydney when only thirteen years of age. He was educated at the Sydney College, which was afterwards constituted the Uni- versity ; and when he had completed his studies was employed by his uncles as supercargo on board their vessels, in which capacity he arrived in this colony on October 20, 1839, in the barque Strath Isla from Timor with a cargo of ponies. After travelling about for some time he settled in Sydney, where he joined his uncle (Mr. Isaac Solomon) in business, and went to Moreton Bay (now called Brisbane) in 1843, at the time that the Governor of New South Wales, to which colony it then pertained, proceeded thither to declare it a free settlement. He was ap- pointed Government Auctioneer, and held the first sale of township allotments. After remain- ing there three years he came to settle in Ade- laide in 1846, where he started an auctioneering firm in connection with Messrs. E. and L. Solomen. It may be stated that his liberality in his commercial dealings was only equalled by the breadth of his social and religions views. For many years Mr. Solomon was held in great estimation as knight of the hammer, his reputa- tion as such being second to none in the city, and he carried on a very suc- cessful business till 1854, when his health somewhat failing, he went to London with his family, remaining there till 1857, in which year be returned to the colony. He had not been long out when the firm of E. Solomon & Co., which had undergone various changes, was dis- solved, and he engaged in commercial pursuits on his own account, and with the exception

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